Nooks help kids hit the books

E-readers being used in two Riverview Elementary classrooms

8:39 PM,
Dec. 19, 2012

Max Liss-'s-Gravemade and Jack Lind read their Nooks in Laura Witt's fifth-grade class at Riverview Elementary School. Fifty of the e-readers were bought using grant money to help bolster literacy skills. The devices are being used in Witt's classroom and that of her colleague, second-grade teacher Carrie Adams.

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It was reading time in fifth-grade teacher Laura Witt's class Wednesday afternoon and the room was quiet, with not even the sound of rustling pages.

That's because most of the students in the Riverview Elementary School classroom were using Nooks, and they were swiping at small screens instead of turning pages. Nooks, digital hand-held reading devices capable of Internet access and running applications, have been distributed to each of Witt's students and to each of the second-graders in the class of her colleague, Carrie Adams.